Method and device for providing a gas flow containing a reducing agent

US8615985B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• EMITEC Gesellschaft fuer Emissionstechnologie mbH · DE

Inventors

• Rolf Brück · Bensberg, DE
• Peter Hirth · Rösrath, DE
• Thomas Härig · Eppstein, DE
• Marc Brugger · Neunkirchen, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Apr 1, 2009
• Grant date: Dec 31, 2013
• Expiry date: Aug 21, 2030

Classification

• Technology area (CPC Y): Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
• CPC primary: Y02T10/12
• WIPO field: Environmental technology
• WIPO sector: Chemistry

Abstract

A method for providing a reducing agent-containing gas flow in the exhaust system of an internal combustion engine includes providing at least one reducing agent precursor, evaporating the precursor to provide a gas flow, at least partially heating the gas flow to temperatures of at least 250° C., at least partially converting the precursor in the gas flow to a reducing agent and adding the reducing agent-containing gas flow to the exhaust of the engine. The method and a device provide a reducing agent-containing gas flow in a quantity being easily controllable and adaptable to dynamic changes especially in exhaust systems of mobile applications such as automobiles. A temperature of a first zone is kept at 150° C. or just below while a temperature of a second zone is kept at more than 300° C. A hydrolysis catalytic converter is hardly cooled upon receiving the precursor as a vapor, positively affecting the method.